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Sunday, July 07, 2013

City Of Salisbury Employees Paying To Keep Their Jobs?

While Mayor Ireton and Council President Jake Day pound their chest in excitement over the City of Salisbury employee pay raise of 2%, they failed to tell you they raised health insurance by 22% to those very same employees.It's been 8 years since these employees have seen an increase in their pay and I don't know about YOU but I can't see anything these employees can be excited about. "It is your election to lose".

When you have a homosexual pansy mayor and Fake Day the urban planner and you put the two of them knowing they are both liberal democrats who dont know the meaning of a balanced budget. But low turn out and low information voters this is what happens.

10:52 -Don't make excuses---goes to show just how incompetent most governments have been. Most if not all governments (esp in MD) where flush with money not so long ago due to overinflated real estate. Their attitude was to spend it instead of doing what a prudent person would do and save it. All sensible people knew the bubble would not last and many told these spendthrifts that but they chose to ignore and kept on spending.

Joe, public works employees have had pay cuts every year for 8 years. During that time health insurance has increased every year, they were furloughed, their retirement contribution went from 2% to 7%. Police and Fire have received several raises during the same time. Nobody begrudges those departments raises, but at some point the rest should be taken care of. We have already seen nearly the whole engineering department leave and key personnel of nearly every department have gone. Of course some of the losses can be absorbed but the public would be shocked if they understood the knowledge of Salisbury that has walked out the door. Why do you think Pick left? He saw the writing on the wall. I'm for shrinking government but I also think we should take care of the performers. There is no functional merit raises in the city. People like Lore Chambers get 24% raises in a year but the girl taking irate phone calls or filling pot holes lives on $20,000 a year. Of course that's before $1,400 comes out for retirement and another $2,000 for health insurance. None of even considers taxes. 17% gone right there. They need to bring back MERIT RAISES.